Quote Originally Posted by Misutoraru View Post
I took a break just after first coil release, I don’t notice such situations, probably because we all just running first coil with dark light set and first stage of relic, no one is vastly overgear, hence I have little down time to pull a aero and may be 1-2 stone before I have back to casting heal. Then I came back as HW release, there are some intense fight like the Vault pair with my low potency AST, those are quite intense healing. Time fly ppl have been quite over gear and AST was buff to the sky. Try A1S, don’t even have to do mechanics, just dps the boss down ASAP, and I barely need to cast any heal, just spam my only single target dps.
I mean it wouldn’t hurt if we push the healing requirements more this expansion, a small tune down of healing potency or rise in oGCD healing CD would be able to tip the balance slightly.
Well, of course, AST healing got easier after they were buffed. AST could barely function as a healer at 3.0 release, so things were, expectedly, more challenging for it because it was quite literally gimped. And, of course, you don't have to do mechanics for A1S after you start overgearing it. However, I think you're being a bit disingenuous bringing that up, because this didn't start happening until after the content was already irrelevant. When A1S was relevant, it was overturned to the point that Faust was a static breaker. When people were doing it for the Anima step, it was already irrelevant due to overgearing it by ~60 item levels and due to Gordias being nerfed as a whole.